What is typical of the hiring process at midsize or biglaw firms for lateral associates? In other words: how many rounds of interviews? how long are the interviews? do they ask for references, and if so, how many? are they Zoom, in-person, hybrid? if it's for a specifix practice area, are the questions area-specific or general "tell me about yourself" questions?

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Are you currently a clerk? If so your interview won’t really be a “lateral” one and it’ll just be basic softball questions, same as if you were doing OCI (though of course you should expect to speak to your clerkship experiences).

If your fishbowl title is just out of date and you’re a true lateral, they won’t really ask area-specific questions as “gotchas” for the most part (that happened to me once, predictably at Kirkland…) but will rather be aimed at getting you to describe any relevant experience and how that will fit into the practice group.

The most “substantive” questions I ever really got were more behavior (e.g. have you ever had to tell a partner or client that they were wrong, and how did you do it? Etc.).

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A1: TY for your comment! Yes, I'm currently a clerk and my clerkship is ending in August. I've had some interviews but they seemed atypical so I wanted to ask fishies about their experiences.

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